Polycom,
Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in open standards-based
unified communications and collaboration (UC&C), today honored
top-performing partners from around the world at an awards ceremony
during TEAM Polycom 2013, the company’s annual sales and partner
conference, held in Vancouver, British Columbia, February 4-7, 2013. The
Polycom Partner Awards recognize companies for leadership in each of the
major partner categories and for excellence in the areas of services,
innovation, integration, and industry focus. In total, Polycom honored
70 companies for their achievements in 2012.

“We are thrilled to recognize and honor these top-performing partners
who really went above and beyond to meet the needs of our joint
customers,” said Ron Myers, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Channels,
Polycom. “We serve a growing customer base, and an increasingly diverse
one, as the power of video collaboration is fast becoming a business
requirement for every organization, large and small. The Polycom Partner
Award winners highlight how together we best meet the solution, service,
and support needs of our customers. Our partners are absolutely critical
to our success and these awards shine a spotlight so we can all learn
from their achievements.”

The Polycom Partner Awards recognize global partners whose achievements
impact Polycom's business on a worldwide basis, theater awards for each
of the company's five operating regions, and country awards to partners
that primarily do business within a single country. In addition to
awards recognizing leaders in each key category, Polycom also recognizes
partners with the Excellence Awards:

Excellence in Services recognizes partners who excelled in
services, customer satisfaction and engagement with Polycom's services
and sales teams.

Excellence in Innovation honors partners who demonstrated a
unique or innovative approach to implementing Polycom solutions.

Excellence in Integration spotlights partners that successfully
integrated Polycom solutions with a UC platform from a strategic
alliance partner.

Excellence in Industry recognizes partners that were successful
in pursuing business within a major vertical industry, such as
education, healthcare, or government.

Award winners are part of the Polycom
Partner Network, a global ecosystem of alliance and channel
partners. The nearly 7,000 Polycom Partner Network members embrace and
extend Polycom's open standards-based video collaboration solutions to
deliver comprehensive UC&C solutions for the enterprise as well as
applications to support a growing number of use cases across vertical
industries such as healthcare, education, government, manufacturing,
financial services, media and entertainment. As part of the Polycom
Partner Network, technology providers, ISVs, solution advisors,
integrators, service providers, and other companies can work with
Polycom and each other to deliver tailored solutions for the
multi-faceted needs of today’s organizations.

Partners were nominated and reviewed by a panel of Polycom’s worldwide
and theater executives.

Partner of the Year - Australia & New ZealandElectroboard
Solutions Pty Ltd

Partner of the Year - India & South Asian Association for Regional
CooperationAGC Networks Limited

Partner of the Year - Southeast AsiaPT Westcon Group

Partner of the Year - KoreaSoftbank Commerce Korea

Central/Latin AmericaPartner of the Year - BrazilDigitalnet
Brasil

Partner of the Year - MexicoLimbergy

Partner of the Year - ChileTouchmedia

Partner of the Year - EcuadorMetrotek

Partner of the Year - ArgentinaEl Cubo

Partner of the Year - PeruCoatel

Partner of the Year – CaribbeanAVC

Europe/Middle East/AfricaPartner of the Year - UK & IrelandAVM
Impact

Partner of the Year – FranceSFR

Partner of the Year – GermanyIngram Micro Distribution GmbH

Partner of the Year – SpainProfinsa

Partner of the Year – ItalyAyno

Partner of the Year – BeneluxGo Connect

Partner of the Year – NordicsSEC Datacom

Partner of the Year – RussiaOCS Distribution

Partner of the Year – Middle East North AfricaDataBox

Partner of the Year – Israel, South Africa, GreeceKathea

Partner of the Year – Austria & SwitzerlandKilchenmann AG

Partner of the Year – Eastern EuropeDamovo Polska

North AmericaPartner of the Year - United StatesAVI-SPL

Partner of the Year - CanadaTelus

Partner of the Year - FederalProTel

Partner DMR of the YearCDW

About Polycom

Polycom is the global leader in open standards-based unified
communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions for voice and video
collaboration, trusted by more than 415,000 customers around the world.
Polycom solutions are powered by the Polycom® RealPresence®
Platform, comprehensive software infrastructure and rich APIs that
interoperate with the broadest set of communication, business, mobile
and cloud applications and devices to deliver secure face-to-face video
collaboration in any environment. Polycom and its ecosystem of over
7,000 partners provide truly unified communications solutions that
deliver the best user experience, highest multi-vendor interoperability,
and lowest TCO. Visit www.polycom.com
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to learn how we’re pushing the greatness of human collaboration forward.

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